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18 June, 2013

I spent my off day settling in and watching Matt Harvey and Zach Wheeler start the day/night doubleheader for the Mets in Atlanta. Harvey was making his 25th career start, Wheeler his first.
It remains to be seen if the duo will be this generation's Seaver and Koosman, or Gooden and Darling, or God forbid Pulsipher and Wilson, but clearly these two men hold the Mets future in their hands, which just happen to be attached to a pair of electric right arms.
So I decided to track the two guys pitches that were 95 MPH and faster, as well as swings and misses.
Early in the first game Mets color commentator Ron Darling says "it's a fast gun here in Atlanta, so you're going to see a lot of 97s and 98s." Combine that with the Braves N.L. leading 621 whiffs, and this could be pretty fun.
Here are my logs for the two pitchers. A "M with a number" before a MPH means a swing and miss at a pitch 95+. Just a M means a swing and a miss at a pitch below 95 mph.